Improved tug-hook



VLPUERS. PHOTO-L YHOGRAPMLR WASHINGTON c JGHN ECK, F MEDORA,`IND1A NA.

Letters Patent No. 90,938, dated June 8, 1869.V

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it Imay concern Be it known that I, JOHN ECK, of Medora, in the county of Jackson, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Safety Trace-Hook; and I do hereby declare the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings furnished and forming a part of the same, to be a true, clear, and correct description thereof. l

Figure 1, in the drawings, shows my safety tracehook complete, with the movable jaw open, its position, when closed, being indicated by the dotted lines in red.

A is the shank, to be fastened to the tug-leather by rivets or other suitable means, and upon one end of which is turned a hook, as seen in the drawings.

This hook makes a curve of about three-fourths of the circumference of a circle, and forms, in connection with the hook B, riveted to the shank A at D, a double hook, which assumes the form of an iron eyelet,when closed, with' an aperture slightly o val. t

E is a horn or stud projecting -from B, to facilitate opening the hooks.

Having th usdescribed my invention,

Vliat I claim as new, and for which I desire to secure Letters Patent, is-

The improved safety trace-hook herein described, consisting of the parts A and B, constructed and operating substantially as set forth.

JOHN EOK.

Witnesses WILLIAM F. J ULIAN,

MATHEW W. TANNER. 

